Margaret Moore University of Idaho entrance examination

Collection

Identifier: MG 5085

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Answers to a test given by University of Idaho President Franklin Benjamin Gault to classify the first entering students at the University of Idaho, October 5, 1892. Accompanied by the envelope in which the test was returned to the donor in 1898, and a note by the donor.

Dates

Creation: 1892-1898

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Consult Head of Special Collections and Archives on permissions for use.

Biographical / Historical

Margaret McCallie Moore was one of the first students to enter the University of Idaho and graduated with the second class of students in 1898. Her father, Dr. John Hugh McCallie was Moscow's first dentist. Moore would work as a English tutor for one year before being hired as the University head librarian starting in 1900. She served as chair of the U of I Alumni Association and left in 1907 for graduate school in Chicago at the Columbia School of Expression. She moved to Spokane where she continued work with the alumni assocation and created the Idaho alumni chapter. Moore organized and donated early documents and photographs to the University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives and her husband's mining library to the School of Mines. Moore passed away in 1972.